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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
Is this an exposure exercise from your therapist? Of it is, asking for reassurance here makes the ERP exercise pointless. Response prevention is equally if not more important than the exposure. Sit with the uncertainty about what all of those feelings may or may not mean. If not, it sounds to me like what you’re doing is a pretty torturous compulsions: testing yourself with pictures to see if you have a reaction. And it’s one that will never give you the answer you want or reassure you in any lasting way. It’s just feeding the obsession and I’d encourage you to stop.
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- 5y ago
That's ocd for you... Ocd will do anything to "accuse" you of what your obsession suggests, to go so far even to make you feel fake arousal/feelings/thoughts /mental images just to scare you even more than you already are.
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- 5y ago
It's most likely because your anxious you might find them attractive
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- 5y ago
I’ve gone down that route and it doesn’t help. My heart raced, but not erection..eventually got bored... But that won’t be good enough..you’ll have to test yourself more and more. Just like “pureOlife” says..it’s just feeding your obsession. It’s better to just not go there at all and live your life...your sexuality will be clear just by living...you didn’t have to focus this hard to figure out you were straight right?
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- 5y ago
I know it’s not attraction, because the feeling is absolutely horrible. It’s that “what if” that gets me.
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- 5y ago
If** it is
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- 5y ago
Just dont stress about it
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- 9w ago
Ughhhhhh it feels like I can’t tell between false attraction or attractive 😭 :/ idk I just saw some pics of joji and artist that makes music when he was younger (it was a post on insta) and on one of them I thought oh he looks cute here, but no I’m like omg but idk in what way tho but it felt like not false attraction like I thought or meant it in another way and I. Felt that and then kinda freaked out bc idk if it’s weird and then I felt groinals and *sigh*
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- 7w ago
Does anyone else when they have the thoughts, they feel against it, but they still get arousal or tenglings sensations in the groinal area? Because this is what I experienced today and I feel like crap. This is going to be very triggering for a lot of you, but there are a lot of times that I notice things from kids. For example, there is a thirteen year old kid who looks very developed for her age, and I take notice of (and this already sounds creepy to me) her chest. Today with my thoughts, I imagined as if I were touching it, and although I usually "no no or "I don't want to do that", she is a kid, etc., I still get responses in my groinal area, and It felt very real. Even now, I feel as though I am faking it, even though I groan 😮💨 from it, and feel as though I am a fraud. Does anyone relate?
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- 25d ago
Why are things so real the first time they’re in my mind and then when I think about it later it’s easier for me to be like wtf?? I was watching a movie earlier and the young girl had developed more in the chest area than the last movie and I felt the desire to check her out so I did. Then later I let myself imagine her having sex and I liked it. But now looking back I’m like ew. The boys in the movie have also developed as the movie went on and I couldn’t help but think that in their real life they’ve probably woken up to boners and s*men and stuff. And looking back it’s just ugh. Idk if it’s sexual relevance but I genuinely let myself indulge in these thoughts and groinal responses and I remember thinking to myself I don’t want to be attracted to little kids and how do I stop myself (everyone has attractive qualities so in younger boys I see man like qualities). Idk I need help. I wouldn’t type this out if I truly believe I was messed up but I’m still scared
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